Ceylon's First Stamps As A Dominion
THE Les Jou
had at breakfaji probably came from Ceylon, which recently Inmed' her fini stampa sa an independent nation.
The Slamp of the Week shows the flag of this 'seventh Dominion of the Commonwealth. It is red and gold with a lion grasping a sword the banner of the kings who ruled Ceylon before the Portuguese con- quered the island about 1817. The Bifilih drove them out in 1785, und Certon siarted on the road to Independence, which she 'reached Isat 'year,
FROM HERE AND THERE:
Catching Snakes
Is New US Craze
In the Salt- Crock
Canyon country of Oklahoma you could "have seen more than a thousand men, women and children clam- bering over rocks and peering into crevices. Carefully they searched small caves, Suddenly, Briton was
OKLAHOMA: From a crag flooded with applications from a special class of job seekers. They are from girls who want to marry him.
В
The International Association
Whale steaks
NEW YORK: Whalo`meat for the subject of a
York Herald Tribune.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1949.
Mr Mann Dips His Pen
Into A Glue-pot
which
DOCTOR FAUSTUS. By Esmeralda, he is infected with
Thomas Mann. Socker the and Warburg. 158. 511
pages.
palo spirochacie stimulates his gendus, in the end kills him
"Dr Faustus" is as ponderous as a suit of armour, as dark as ing as the a medieval dungeon, as uninvit
Iron Virgin of Nuremberg.
SAMARA.
THE legend of Faust has been handled in many different fashions over the centuries. It has be
THOMAS MANN, aged 73, exiled come poetry. It has been by Hitler, More
United States turned into drama. But on Nobel Prize for litera
ture 1929, this is the first time, so far as I know, that its author has dipped his pen in glue, The Faust story is Ger- man, Gothic and grotesque, So `great stretches of this novel are put into archale German-and rendered into something resembling the English of the sixteenth century.
there would be a cry: a tenso leader in of recent copy of the
Mann's Faust is figure would bend over. Then New
So writhing five-foot ralilemake
Food 4 composer, The paper advises the would be lifted triumphantly
are pages into the air on a forked stick. Ministry to take two measures there
to popularize let members of musical jargon of the Government-munch an readily compre- of Rattlesnake Hunters
was occasional whaleburger ateak in hensible only to holding its ninth unnuel
roast whale roundup
From all Over Public; let
those who are appear on from Americo, and
foreign whale ragout
steeped in tho *** House of Commons menur lands, the bunters carne.
subject. Rattlesnake catching is Ameri- ca'p. latest sport. Prizes given for the best catches, and the reptiles are sold to zoos and laboratories at 2/8d a pound.
Can't stand him CALIFORNIA:
break recently.
aro
All burned up! (Colorado):
fromt
annual convention their
and
the
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|by a great many human beatographs THE population of the Al-row, will have bolter
gerian village of Samarn, al- though greatly cast down by the ending of a brought them countless blessings
--corrugated
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had
Iron, cast-off trousers, and so forth-have not entirely lost heart.
Goorge Malcolm.
Thomson.
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Ha el Jema, the Week-end Pilgrim (Hitler)
dead, China. Now a company taking with him to sarad with Field Security Service the grave the magi- during war. cal powers he had
from his ex- ALL THINGS BETRAY THEE By Gwyn ional piety and
Thomas. Michael Joseph, asceticism. But Abu Chenab, the Pilgrim
10s. 6d. 318 pages. the
Moustaches,
with a has Mann's narrator is
after him,
even more modest, inept and pedantic personal austerities As
Very impressive.
soon there And Mann, may be a fresh supply of cor- the schoolmaster,
rugated Iron.
come
In the meantime the dump left behind by the all-bountiful British Army can be plundered.
O you'lika melodrama? Here
Do you have it, strong, brick and highly coloured.
In a Welsh valley about a cen- tury ago, Penbury, the harsh ironmaster, has built a gloomy town called Moonlea. And there
DENVER nudists
All over country arrived in a mountain with an excess of unselfish retreat near here for theirness.
a literary assumes style suitable to such a per- Guinea pigs cretory telegraphed 4 protest
he enslaves the peasants whom to The Rural Electrifica- Bon. and other small animals got a tion Administration,
Langland, the officer went to his friend, the wicked Lord Ameri- The American
A band of devoted men and look after the dump, is not long Filmmon, has driven off the of the grid." maid ca's equivalent Veterinary Association their skin allergies could be minute we decide
will launch into this in Samara before he is swept land. Illa telegram asked: "Why, the women
But leaders riso cured by the same seruma and
to hold a book. Their survivors will reach into the ever-simmering struggle.
among the their
toilers, some electric the further
notably dispossessed shore proclaiming between the Arabs and drugs which help their masters convention, does
the Between decide
French rulers, to string a when they get there, with
and his The John Simon Adams and mistresses. But Mrs Joyce company
Arabs, who declare they suffer friend, the harpist, Alan Hugh place whero we Holdridge fot
no rellet for wire in the
shining eyes, that they have
from three diseases, Liberty Leigh. Revolt is about to ex- hold it?"
I walked with genius.
Equality and Fraternity, and
her allergy. A California judge
a divorce. refused her
Her grounds: she breaks but in a rash every time she is near her husband.
Royal incese
NEW YORK: When Prince Charles sneezes in a newsreet, New York audiences shout out: Gesundhell"
(Good health to you.)
•
Novelty churches
The rest of mankind will bo LITTLE ROCK, (Arkangas,) content to doff its hat respect-
masterpiece · here has patented fully and let
..
the
A minister
a theft-proof church collection pass by.
box...The largest Baptist
school,
church in the US got 15,000 Adrian Leverkuhn sells his people to its Bible close, Sun- soul to the Devil in return for day
and two church❘ 24 years of life as a great com- Ohio, by poser. At the end of the term. services
at Akron, sending out free buses.
claim his OWIL the Devil will Finally, after confessing his Porms for patients
on compact to
audience of Popular mombor
friends, Adrian is struck down DALLAS (Texas); A beauty || by a paralytic stroke from which WASHINGTON: The postman shop in the Methodist hospital he never recovers. brings floods of letters to Con- here offers everything from gressmen from applicants for perms to manicures to women Government jobs. The newest patients. They are convinced MP.,
bachelor Franklin it restores the pallents' morale Roosevelt, junior, finds his mall and health more quickly.
Alongside this demonological narrative there is another ex- planation of Adrian's life. By a woman, whom ha
nameu
the French colonists, who rule plode in the valley. them, fear them, and want their land.
It is an ugly Wile conflict, its result fore-ordained. The French have tanks, the Foreign Legion (alt suffered from cafard), and the Senegalese.
The subtle capitalists plant a charge of murder on the two ring-leaders and, with the ald named of a perjured baker
to tho Lemuel, consign them gallows.
Alan Hugh, the harpist, is Langland's experiences scar- reprieved and plots the gaol d
friend.
But the Yet, livery of his cely add up to, a novel. sketchy na it is, the book has rescue party arrives too late. bite. Dry wit; a good eye for There are the main outlines There are also country and character that is of the story. the equipment this, new writer, diversions. For example, Pen- Norman Lewis. brings to his job. bury's beautiful daughter, whom An impressive recruit.
Lord Plimmon loves, has an in- conclusive emotional brush with the harpist.
*NORMAN LEWIS, born 1903, educated at a church school. Tried free-lance journalism, then entered commerce to raise £500 to go to
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE AGE BARRY
CAMPSIAT
Mr Thomas tells his story as translating it into it ho were
English from one of the more; voluble entrants
Eisteddfod.
****
an
The harpist, oxplaining why he is not a first-class performer on his intrument, speaks thus:
"When I played my desire was only to drag the hearts of those who heard me out into sadowed orbit of my own thoughtfulness, to tempf their volces into a dusk-softness of melancholy sound."
When Alan Hugh catches alght of the ironmaster's daugh- ter, this is how it affecia him. "There I was nibbling a bread- crust within three yards of that Douling woman, who had upon her the marke of knowing brands of thinking and feeling that would be as doadly to mo the plague it ever their strangeness allowed them to get as far as my palate."
Plenty more of that, if you are interested.
2011-
*GWYN THOMAS, miner's Born Rhondda 1913, Won a scholar ship to Oxford, Returned to Bhand da as wellars organiser for unam- ployed. Now teaching.
DAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
11
Build This Chair On Wheels
CHIPPY:
DO you like the low sent on wheels pictured above? It
before screwing them together.
Fitting together: I used Ave)
screws on cách này em ơ diagram shows, keeping their as for apart as possible and at least is not difficult to in. from the edge of the wood mako. The main or the axle hole. Countersunit
scat and back sections are screws. 2in. long, are best, the of lin. timber, but I made all points can be filed fat if they
the cross-ralls of 14in wood protrude.
to allow for extra knocking
about by the children. Let's take it step by step.
The
►
Fixing the wheeli: My axles neal
Having are broom frame
handles, and the shaped the two side pieces, each wooden wheels are glued and 2ft. long, I bored the holes in pinned into them. The wheels which my broom handle axles and the axies revolve together will move freely. Then the in the holes. Two-inch wheely frame was built jup with two
are fixed loosely between the 5in. ralls underneath at each blg wheels and the sides of the end, a 3in. rail on top which is seat to act as washers, Bin. from the back. Finally, a aquare section front rall (2in. x 3in. x 1ft 10in.) with the comer rounded to take the webbing.
All these rails were cut into the side members as shown in the diagram,
The back frame: This requires only two 3in. cross rails because- the meat frame acts as a third. It is particuarly important to
theso make
aide members (which are 2ft. Sin. long) al krast Bin. wide at the lower end, for this joint between the back frame and the seat must be as strong as possible.
The back axle holes marked by holding the two frames in position, and bored
The brightly coloured webbing was tacked into place last, The lengths from back to front were
fixed underneath the frames as shown, the lengths from side to side tacked on the edges of the side frames, and the ends folded under to make a neat job. Each strip is held with three dome- headed brass tacks at.cach.end.
-London Express Service).
“Vacation Daze”
BY KEMP STARRETT
OW!!
SOME FOLKS CLAIM THAT YOU CAN KEEP JUST AS COOL AT THE CORNER DRUG STORE AC YOU- CAN AT EXPENSIVE RESORIC.
GUESS WIO PICKED TIC DUMP OF A PLACE "FOR] THE VACATION............ YOU'RE RIGHT SHE DID..
·LAD VAIO⋅ WANTED
TO GO TO
A INCE LIVELY PLACE THE
** FULL OF CO-
CIABLE FOLK”.
THE SUDDEN AUD AVFUL REALIZATION THAT YOU HAVE SIGNED UP FOR TVO, WEEKS AT PIOMAIN.
MANOR..
Holger Sundicate
PARENT
“Y011 EVERZ GOING
ELD?
THAT NICE QUIET FARM WHERE THEY PLANNED TO SLEEP. AS LATE. AS THEY VICHED NO STREET NOKES,
··HO BOAT-WIKTLES, NO PESTS. (NO USE).
| (MOU MIGHT AS WELL TRY SLEEPING ON A BULLDOZER)
THE OVE WHO COULD HARDLY VAIT TO
GET AWAY TO THE GREAT OUT DOORS
THE VITE WILL LEAVE A DETAILED LIST OF HOW THE JOINT IS TO BE DEN WHILE SHES AWAY ON HER VACATION.
THE TOLLS WTO DECIDED „TO STAY AT
• HOME MAD GET A GOOD REST